After a few hours of getting harassed with a management panel from a famous domain registrar (that should not be named), I asked myself why couldn't there be a domain seller focused on selling domains with a no non-sense control panel, no upselling and no "coupons"/"discounts".
I knew the market was saturated, but I decided to research about it anyways and now I have the following question:
Would you buy/transfer your domains to a place where the fixed price would be $10 per domain/year, with no upselling (none at all), no hidden fees, free privacy (turn it on and off at any time) and a modern uncluttered control panel?
If not, what makes you stay with your current domain registrar?
I use EnomCentral because I have a reseller account with them through hostgator (~10$ per domain) but they have grown more and more into an upselling machine. They automatically assume you want a free trial of their Content Writing program. I uncheck it everytime. This is annoying.
I've lately been buying all of my domains through NameCheap. They offer a free SSL cert and free privacy. They don't do much upselling, as I recall. If they do, it didn't bother me as much as Enomcentral.
I don't think upselling is a bad thing. I think it can be a good thing if I see value in the product they are upselling. If not, that's when it's a bad thing. Automatically adding a free trial (w/ a monthly fee after the trial) to my cart when it's something I don't want is horrible.